pictograph

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Recent Examples of pictograph Visitors should allow plenty of daylight hours to find and view the artwork, including some petroglyphs and pictographs that can only be viewed after a short walk. Gary Stoller, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2026 Arabic is the outcome of centuries of trade, innovation and communication, never letting go of the beauty of symbols, pictographs and glyphs. Doris Bittar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026 Not For Radio and Suki Waterhouse were among those teased early via pictographs on Lollapalooza social media accounts. Doug George, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2026 Also available on demand are local wildlife guides and even an archaeologist to help find arrowheads and pinpoint the extraordinary petroglyphs and pictographs scattered around the property. Christopher Bagley, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 May 2020 See All Example Sentences for pictograph
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pictograph
Noun
  • The crowd was feeling good and a little in disbelief at the sight of a fighting ring next to one of the most hallowed symbols of American democracy.
    Liam Bowman, Washington Post, 15 June 2026
  • Specifically saying these white, thin, traditionally feminine bodies are not just aspirational but symbols of morality, tradition, purity.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 15 June 2026
Noun
  • Rodriguez has been developing the concept for more than a decade, based on drawings and stories created with and for his children.
    Pat Saperstein, Variety, 18 June 2026
  • Making Art Creative activities like painting or drawing activate multiple regions of the brain.
    Mark Gurarie, Verywell Health, 17 June 2026
Noun
  • Gallen was an early exemplar of the trend toward high-riding four-seamers, as his other stuff was mostly average in college, with good control probably his best attribute.
    Keith Law, New York Times, 16 June 2026
  • In addition to opacity, each of us prioritize varying secondary attributes in concealer (wrinkle-smoothing, crease-resistance, and ease of use, for instance).
    Sophie Wirt, InStyle, 14 June 2026
Noun
  • Exploding in popularity as digital chatting caught on—an ascent that accelerated when Apple, Google, and their fellow behemoths became emoji adopters—the pictograms acknowledged no national boundaries.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 29 June 2025
  • But decoding the pictograms could be a culturally and historically significant task.
    Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 5 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • All of the objects bear the president’s profile on one side and a 250th anniversary emblem on the obverse.
    Drew Pittock, USA Today, 16 June 2026
  • On Sunday, the brand updated its Instagram profile image to feature a covered logo and posted videos from the stadium showing the shrouded emblem at the entrance and above the scoreboard.
    Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 15 June 2026
Noun
  • Video and images of about 150 strikes against Russian fuel tankers, trucks and other vehicles have been geolocated and analyzed by French open-source analyst Clément Molin and the volunteer-run OSINT group Geoconfirmed, as well as CNN’s OSINT team.
    Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN Money, 20 June 2026
  • This is the first time the public has seen the still images and video, as no cameras were allowed inside the courtroom during the trial.
    Matthew Davisson, CBS News, 19 June 2026
Noun
  • The task was then to make the shirts look official, so a few members of the team’s staff stayed up all night before the game stitching on numbers, the Argentina crest and the Le Coq Sportif logo.
    Nick Miller, New York Times, 17 June 2026
  • The cap featured a rainbow version of the team's logo.
    Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 16 June 2026
Noun
  • Gore is best known for Make America Great Again, her 2016 naked portrait of Trump with the paunch and solemnity of the great men of art history, adding, crucially, the tiniest of compensatory micropenises.
    Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 14 June 2026
  • Mehring said that, on the whole, the art alone represents the most significant contribution to public art in Chicago in decades.
    Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2026

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“Pictograph.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pictograph. Accessed 21 Jun. 2026.

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